Whom he took about everywhere
“Abel de la Rue was hanged at Coulommiers in 1582; he had made a pact with a demon in spaniel’s shape and rendered his male neighbors impotent. In 1591 Léonarde Chastenet was burned alive in Poitou at the age of eighty, after confessing that she had cast spells on corn, been to the Sabbath, and had the Devil for a lover. Madeleine Michelle Chaudron was hanged, strangled, and burned at Geneva in 1652 for having bewitched girls and impressed the ‘Devil’s seal’ on their bodies. An Italian priest, Benedetto Benda, was burned in the sixteenth century, also at eighty years of age, upon confessing that he had kept in his house for forty years a female demon named Hermeline, whom he took about everywhere without anyone seeing her.”
–Émile Grillot de Givry
Posted: October 12th, 2009 under Books.